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(Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc will transfer $7.5 billion in pension obligations to insurer Prudential, removing a quarter of its long-term employee retirement burden with a single upfront payment. The move by the company, which operates No. 1 U.S. wireless carrier Verizon Wireless with Vodafone Group Plc, follows a similar deal that General Motors Co did with Prudential earlier this year. The transaction affects U.S. management pension benefits covering about 41,000 current management retirees, Verizon said in a statement on Wednesday.

TiVo Inc., the pioneer of digital-video-recording technology, gained the most in almost three weeks Monday after Verizon Communications Inc. agreed to pay at least $250.4 million to settle patent litigation. TiVo shares rose 4 percent, to $9.94, at the close in New York, the biggest advance since Sept. 4. The stock has risen 11 percent this year. The agreement requires Verizon to make an initial cash payment of $100 million, followed by $150.4 million more, paid in quarterly installments through July 2018, TiVo said Monday in a statement.

By Sinead Carew NEW YORK, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Verizon Communications and two unions have reached tentative agreements for labor contracts covering about 43,000 technical and customer service workers in its wireline telephone business after more than a year of negotiations and a strike. Verizon was looking to slash its wireline telephone costs to bring them into line with declining revenue at the business, which has faced a steady stream of customer disconnections in recent years as consumers favor cellphones over home phones.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Communications is raising prices for some FiOS customers as it offers higher speeds, a move that one analyst says will potentially lead to higher prices from cable rivals such as Cablevision Systems Corp . The telephone company said it expects the majority of its FiOS Internet customers to have to pay $10 to $15 more per month to avail of new offerings, but it noted that they could change their television package...

June 4 (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc is offering buyouts to 1,700 people, or almost 1 percent of its workforce, affecting technicians and call center workers. The company, which has been looking to cut costs in its declining traditional telephone business, said on Monday that it announced the buyouts to its employees last week. Verizon, which has about 192,000 workers in total, has been in talks for months with unions for labor contracts covering 45,000 employees, or about half its wireline business workforce.

NEW YORK, May 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission asked Verizon Wireless for more details on its offer to sell some wireless spectrum on the condition that the company's purchase of another set of airwaves is approved by regulators. Verizon Wireless, a venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group Plc, said April 18 that it would sell spectrum depending on the outcome of the FCC's pending review of its plan to pay about $3.9 billion for spectrum owned by cable operators.

Verizon Communications Inc. posted higher quarterly earnings and revenue that grew 4.6 percent as it added new mobile subscribers. Its mobile affiliate, Verizon Wireless, added 501,000 contract customers in the quarter compared with the average expectation for just over 511,000 from five analysts polled by Reuters. Earnings rose to $1.69 billion, or 59 cents per share compared with $1.44 billion, or 51 cents per share, in the year-earlier quarter. Revenue rose to $28.24 billion from $26.99 billion.

— Google Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. detailed the companies' proposal for addressing the controversial issue of prioritizing Internet traffic, outlining an arrangement on Monday that could maintain open access on the public Internet, while creating a tiered structure for future services such as on-demand video and gaming. The joint disclosure comes days after the Federal Communications Commission scuttled talks among a number of companies on network neutrality because of a lack of progress, and shortly after news reports surfaced that Google and Verizon were making a separate arrangement that could have far-reaching influence.

— Federal regulators are giving up efforts to negotiate a compromise between Web companies and Internet service providers over "net neutrality" rules intended to prevent discrimination in the way online traffic is treated. The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday that it would no longer try brokering a deal among various phone, cable TV and Internet companies, saying that weeks of talks had not "generated a robust framework to preserve openness and freedom of the Internet."